Chapter 2: The Secret Behind the Fall
Chapter 2: The Secret Behind the Fall
Police investigators arrived before sunset.
Grace insisted it had been an accident.
She claimed she merely reached out to steady Emily.
But the forensic video analyst enlarged the footage frame by frame.
Emily's body moved before Grace attempted to "catch" her.
The sequence was undeniable.
The push came first.
The rescue never came.
Then another discovery changed everything.
Housekeeper Maria quietly handed detectives a small envelope she had hidden for weeks.
Inside were printed messages exchanged between Grace and someone saved only as "R."
"If Emily loses the baby... everything changes."
"Daniel will never forgive her."
"The inheritance goes another direction."
Investigators traced the number.
It belonged to Richard Whitmore.
Grace's father.
The same man who had spent years trying to convince Daniel to rewrite his estate after learning Emily was expecting twins.
Daniel felt sick.
"This wasn't jealousy..."
"This was planned."
Richard denied every accusation.
Grace finally broke.
Crying uncontrollably, she confessed.
Her father had promised that nothing serious would happen.
"Just frighten her."
"Make the pregnancy look unstable."
"Daniel will delay signing the trust."
"I never wanted her to fall."
Emily listened quietly.
Then asked one heartbreaking question.
"When you touched my back..."
"Did you think about my babies even once?"
Grace couldn't answer.
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Because the truth was...
She hadn't.
